Save Your Sympathy

Save your sympathy for the poor living instead Of wasting your tears and pity on the dead Since they are past suffering and any living care But the poor living in need of help are no longer rare People are dying of malnutrition every day And fleeing for their lives from war zones far away They live in places surrounded by fear And why weep for the dead when the dead do not hear The poor every day life's survival battle have to face Many of them are Stateless and without a Home-place They are in need of compassion, kindness and empathy And they surely could do with some sympathy That the dead are past suffering i can only believe And they do not hear you sobbing when for them you do grieve.